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“The safest general characterization of the European philosophical tradition is that it consists of a series of footnotes to Plato.”
–Alfred North Whitehead

Video of my presentations at the 10th International Whitehead Conference on Friday (6/5) and Saturday (6/6)

Conference website.

Friday, June 5th at 4:45pm:
Whitehead’s Non-Modern Philosophy: Cosmos and Polis in the Pluriverse

Saturday June 6th at 2:30pm:
Religion in Human and Cosmic Evolution: Whitehead’s Alternative Vision

I have a lot to say about some of the questions that came up during the discussion (~58 minutes into the video), especially the issues that Terrence Deacon and Stu Kauffman brought up about life’s pervasiveness in the universe and whether “play” might exist in the non-biological world. I’ll be posting about these questions in the next few days…

[Update 6/11: Stu K. and I had breakfast the day after my talk to discuss the idea of a “physics of play.” Such a physics becomes possible given the panexperientialist basis of Whitehead’s ontology. I’m hoping we can co-author a paper on this… Stay tuned.]

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4 responses to “Video of my presentations at the 10th International Whitehead Conference on Friday (6/5) and Saturday (6/6)”

  1. Religion in Human and Cosmic Evolution: Whitehead’s Alternative Vision | Footnotes 2 Plato Avatar
    Religion in Human and Cosmic Evolution: Whitehead’s Alternative Vision | Footnotes 2 Plato

    […] This was an early draft of a paper I presented at the 10th International Whitehead Conference. For video of the actual presentation, click HERE. […]

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  2. Whitehead’s Non-Modern Philosophy: Cosmos and Polis in the Pluriverse (draft) | Footnotes 2 Plato Avatar
    Whitehead’s Non-Modern Philosophy: Cosmos and Polis in the Pluriverse (draft) | Footnotes 2 Plato

    […] The following was an early draft of a talk I gave in my own track at the Whitehead/Ecological Civilization conference in Claremont, CA. For video of the actual talk, click HERE.  […]

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    raiseyourvibrationnow

    Great presentations, Matt. Spurred on some ideas for me. Aloha!

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    […] Religion in Human and Cosmic Evolution + Whitehead’s Non-Modern Alternative [Video] by Matt Segall […]

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